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Samir Refinery: The conditions for recovery

B ASED in the city of Moham- level and prospects of employment
justified by the activity in question.
media, the Samir refinery
Judges also require guarantees subs-
has been placed in compul-
sory liquidation with continuity of cribed to ensure the execution of
operations since March 2016. The the bid. Another condition required
company and the 540 employees is the provision of asset sales fore-
who have remained in office to date casts for the 2 years following the
have been waiting for almost seven judicial sale. Bids must also include
years for a favorable outcome of the documents relating to the last three
procedure. After the 2017 attempt, a financial years when candidates are
second one was initiated at the Ca- legally required to establish them, as
sablanca Commercial Court to sell is the case for a public limited com-
the only refinery in the Kingdom pany. Investors interested in buying
of Morocco. The judicial trustee, Samir’s assets are entitled to a visit
Abdelkebir Safadi, announced at the to the refinery and to the consulta-
end of January 2023 that the sale of tion of the specifications. This docu-
the assets of the limited company of ment is available at the company’s
the refining industry (Samir) will be head office in Mohammedia. The
made on the basis of specifications. company carries out several activi-
This sale is based on order no 14- ties, namely the refining, storage,
2017 of January 30, 2017 of judge transport and distribution of petro-
Abderrafia Bouhameri. This rather submit bids accompanied by the ne- publication of the ad. Candidates for leum products. Samir thus has other
discreet magistrate supervises the cessary guarantees while complying the purchase of the company there- subsidiaries such as Salam Gaz or
judicial liquidation. “The sale has with Article 636 of the Commercial fore have until Thursday, March 2 Somas. “The first holds one third of
been set for a starting price of 21.46 Code”, indicates the announce- to declare themselves to the judicial the gas bottling market. The second
billion Dirhams (US billion 2.15)”, ment of the judicial transfer of the trustee. Abdelkebir Safadi works at company specializes in the storage of
specifies one of the three control- company. This provision provides, the Casablanca Commercial Court butane gas, also with very large mar-
lers of the procedure, El Houssine among other things, that “any bid in its Insolvency Section. All bids ket shares in this activity”, according
El Yamani, himself an employee of must be communicated to the judi- must contain activity and financing to the president of the National Front
Samir. Bids and guarantees must be cial trustee within the time limit that forecasts, the transfer price and the for the rescue of the Samir refinery,
filed with the Casablanca Commer- he has set”. Bids must be submit- terms of payment, the date of com- mister El Houssine El Yamani.o
cial Court. “Investors are invited to ted within 30 days from the date of pletion of the transfer, as well as the Faiçal FAQUIHI

ChatGPT, a major revolution in the world of AI

A RTIFICIAL intelligence is, Mamri, Digital Consultant-Expert,
without question, a major re-
CEO and founder of the Synchronism
volution in the world of digi-
agency and Founding member of the
tal engineering. This technological “BlackBelt.Expert” collective, has
advance will bring radical changes used this solution to generate answers
in almost all sectors, because today on the following theme: “How can AI
it is increasingly rolled out within help Moroccan SMEs and VSMEs to
industrial companies in order to increase their operational efficiency
benefit from the advantages this and profitability?”.
advance provides in terms of saving Content is globally and exclu-
time, collecting information, and sively produced by ChatGPT. We
automation of processes, but also have also decided to publish it in its
is beginning to gain ground in the raw format, as originally generated,
world of marketing, communica- in order to have a better appreciation
tion, and writing. Indeed, you have of the editorial and information gathe-
all recently heard about this app ring capabilities of this AI, but also of
called ChatGPT, an artificial intelli- its limitations. The result obtained is
gence that has the ability to generate breathtaking, which leads us to seve-
text as an answer to questions from generate texts on a theme previously n L’Economiste publishes a ral questions about the future place
Internet users. This chatbot is also chosen and defined, but also to pro- paper entirely generated by the of humans in an environment where
able to produce text responses in se- duce summaries of a document. It conventional robot AI will undoubtedly be brought to
veral languages, which is quite sur- also has the capacity to help find and In order to bring you even closer to become more affordable, and even to
prising and a real revolution that will organize its ideas when producing the content that ChatGPT can produce, place itself as a direct “competitor”
be further improved with the next textual content. Even further, it has we have lent ourselves to a content of human beings in tomorrow’s labor
release of a new version, “ChatGPT the capacity to create fictional cha- writing exercise in question/answer market.o
4”.ChatGPT makes it possible to racters like in a novel. format with this AI application. Jamyl Badr CHAOU
Friday 10 February 2023